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PLOATING DOCK. No'. 412,992. Patented Oct. 15, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo JOHN STANDFIELD, OF VESTMINSTER, ENGLAND.

FLOATING-DOCK.

SPECIIE`I(`JA'JIIO1\T forming part of Letters Patent No. 412,992, dated October 15, 1889.

Application filed July 17, 1889. Serial No. 317,820. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN STANDFIELD, engineer, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at 6 Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, in the city of Westminster, England, have invented certain new and useful Floating-Docks, of which the following is a specification.

According' to this invention I make iioatingdocks in sections of suoli a form that the sections can be docked upon each other.

Figure l is an end view, Fig. 2 a side view, Vand Fig. 3 a plan, of a dock made in two sections and constructed according to my invention. Fig. e is a transverse section7 Fig. 5 a longitudinal section, and Fig. (i a perspective view, ot' the saine dock With one section docked upon the other.

Each section consists of a ilat ponton or raft ce a', provided along the part a (that is to say, about half of its length) with buoyant sides o h. The portion a', which is not provided With sides, is narrower than the por- JOHN ST ANDFIELD.

fitnessesz FRANK WILLIsFoRD GEiEEsoN, Secretary to Stcmcleld d2 Clark, Engineers, 6 Westminster Chambers, London, S. T/V.

AMBROSE FISH, Nfz'ms Clerk, 5 Waterloo Place, London, 

